Move escalates battle over intellectual property theft between Beijing and Seoul in critical semiconductor sector
China has detained a South Korean chip engineer on espionage charges, Beijing confirmed on Tuesday, escalating a brewing tech war between the east Asian neighbours over the critical semiconductor industry. The engineer, who is in his 50s and lives in Hefei in China’s Anhui province, was arrested in December, according to diplomats cited by South Korea’s state-owned news agency Yonhap.
Authorities have also cracked down on foreign consultancies, raiding the Shanghai office of US consultancy Bain last year in a probe tied to its work on a semiconductor-related project for a South Korean company. According to South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, Chinese investigators “isolated and interrogated” the South Korean engineer, identified as “Mr A”, at a hotel for more than five months.
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